The CANF has been tied to terrorist drug traffickers responsible for acts
on a scale that would have sent the US military into full scale action had
they been done to Americans. Following the death of its founder Mas Canosa in 1997,
CANF began to lose the cohesion he provided, which led a
substantial portion of its members to split and form the Cuban Liberty
Council in 2001.

In August, 2001, the CANF found itself in the middle of a crisis that arose from the City of Miami's refusal to
host the Grammy Awards. When the falangistas heard that LA made 50 million from
the ceremonies, Mas Canosa Jr. himself set up the welcoming comittee for the
next Grammy. Not being given to rule by consultation and consensus, he angered the old guard who is
defected, well, OK, resigned and went elsewhere:
people like Perez Castellon, information officer, etc. The idea of Mas Canosa
having to hug some Cuban musician awardee proved too much. Meanwhile some bright
Miami boy renewed the registration for the name CANF, a task left undone by the
not too efficient CANF administration. See
Alberto Jones' comments: Requiem for a Teratoma

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT on JORGE MAS CANOSA 1993: "Jorge
Who" by Gaeton Fonzi, Special Team Director, House Select Committee
on Assassinations

USAID reveals its plans for subversion in Cuba 5/29/2008 Granma: "getting a
slice of the cake, were: The pseudo Czech NGO People in Need; Global Partners,
IBMC, Loyola University, the Center for Democracy in the Americas, Jackson State
University, the Mississippi Consortium for International Development, the
International Resources Group, the Panamerican Development Foundation, Partners
of America, the Alliance for Family, the Trade Council of Hungary and the
millionaire TV Martí. No diplomat – not even the Czech agent Kolar – was
present. In what is equivalent to confessing authentic espionage operations
against Cuba and in Cuban territory, "Pepe" Cárdenas, the former CANF director
who replaced the supremely corrupt Adolfo Franco, insisted on the need to
identify NGOS in third countries that can channel USAID’s resources for
subversion. He stressed the need to dispatch to Cuba, via such intermediaries,
"propaganda pamphlets, cell phones and modern communications equipment," as well
as "to train Cubans resident in third countries." Highlighting the philosophy
behind the significant expansion of the USAID’s Cuba Program, Cárdenas announced
that its budget of $13 million in 2007, "shot up" to $45 million in 2008. He
then moved on to the new geography of this monumental squandering, noting Chile,
Peru, Argentina, Colombia and Puerto Rico as countries most inclined to develop
this clandestine operation."

Bacardi: from C-4 to flamethrowers 9/28/2006 Granma: "IT is pretty ironic
that the Bacardi company, which for 50 years has financed the Cuban-American
National Foundation (CANF) and the C-4 of Posada Carriles, would be victims of a
consumer demand, victims of a bottle of the controversial rum converted into a
flamethrower. Three women in South Florida suffered burns in 2002, when a client
of the adult Secrets club converted a bottle of Bacardi into a flamethrower
during a drinks promotion. Drunk, the client set fire to a menu in order to
light the rum that he was drinking in a cup. The flames spread to a bottle of
75.5-proof Bacardi rum, which then exploded."

CANF responsible for attack on Por Esto 9/4/2006 Granma: "This Sunday,
Mario Menéndez, proprietor of the opposition daily Por Esto, charged the
Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) of Miami and Mexican state officials
with responsibility for the grenade attacks on the newspaper offices in the last
few days. Por Esto exposed Luis Posada Carriles’ transit via Mexican waters and
territory, as well as the person and drug smuggling operations in which the CANF
is involved. In an editorial titled “Two grenades that say a lot,” Menéndez
noted that the brother of the governor of the state of Yucatan and a commander
of the national police special forces were involved in planning the attacks, PL
reports."''

The Center for Pan-African Development and Miami CopWatch Statement on Liberty
City "Terror" Arrests 7/1/2006 Marguertite Laurent: "On the day of the
Liberty City raids, the story of a former director of the right wing Cuban
American National Foundation (CANF), a federally recognized not-for-profit
organization based in Miami, admitting to planning terrorist acts against a
sovereign state, failed either to draw national attention or merit "above the
fold" coverage on the front page of Miami's newspaper of record. A sub-committee
of the CANF board of directors moved beyond the "discussion stage,"
demonstrating their capacity to carry out terrorist plots by purchasing boats, a
helicopter and caches of weapons and ammunition for the purpose of executing the
plot. The admission only confirmed commonly held suspicions about the CANF's
violent intentions and the government's indifference towards those intentions."

SOON TO BE LAUNCHED IN PARIS • A book revealing the FBI’s terrorist Miami
connection 9/7/2005 Granma: ""The hopes of the agents and police officers
were quickly extinguished. Pesquera, they said, began to fraternize with key
members of the exile leadership, such as Alberto Hernández (formerly of the
CANF); Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; Domingo Otero (another former CANF hardliner) and
Roberto Martín Pérez (...) Pesquera, according to an agent in his office,
quickly made a brusque turn toward the right, and all investigations related to
terrorism were abandoned.""

THE MIAMI MAFIA IN CANADA - A drug trafficking “right-hand man” 4/16/2004 Granma: "THE
“right-hand man” of Ismael Sambra, current leader of the Cuban Canadian
Foundation, was arrested in December 1990 as chief of a drug trafficking gang,
resulting in the most important seizure of cocaine in Montreal’s history. On May
7, 1993, Máximo Morales, aged 57 and of Cuban origin, pleaded guilty to charges
of conspiracy and importing 115 kilograms of the drug; just a small quantity of
the huge volume of drugs that his organization had trafficked. At that time,
Morales represented the French-speaking province of Quebec on the executive of a
“human rights” faction founded by Sambra, whose was located in Toronto. However,
according to various sources, the drug trafficker was aspiring to take over the
presidency of the small organization… According to statements by police officers
at the time of the arrest, detectives assessed that Morales’ organization – a
mafioso group led by César Riviera from Toronto – had imported 1,500 kilograms
of cocaine the year before the “businessman’s” arrest and earnings worth $3.4
million during the six weeks prior to that event. In that period, the
Rivera-Morales network controlled half the cocaine market for the Canadian
province of Ontario, according to information circulated at the time of the
police operation… Granma International revealed in 2003 how Sambra’s arrival in
Canada was sponsored by a mysterious “anonymous donor” who had urged the head of
York University to “provide him with a cover,” and how he went on to create his
organization with the support of Miami’s Cuban-American National Foundation
(CANF)."

Frank
Calzon 4/16/2004 Cuba Socialista: "Another ex CIA agent and former director
of the terrorist groups ABDALA and the National Liberation Front of Cuba. He
also was one of the first directors of the CANF. Presently he is one of the
directors of Freedom House and Cuban Committee of Human rights. Both of these
organizations amply financed by the US government. He also receives substantial
amounts of money from the International Development Agency in Washington. He is
also the director of Free Cuba Center; a center financed by Washington. Calzon
finances the activities of Gustavo Arcos and other counterrevolutionaries in
Cuba."

Mas
Santos makes offer to talk with Cuba leaders 1/31/2003 Miami
Herald: "Though Mas Santos excluded Fidel and Raul Castro from the list and has
not made an official move to open a dialogue, it was the first time the Cuban
American National Foundation chairman has publicly named Cuban officials with
whom he is willing to talk -- a very public signal that Cuban exiles are staking
a claim in a future political transition… Exiles blasted Mas Santos on radio
shows while Cuban opposition leaders from Havana telephoned the foundation with
praise, according to CANF… José Vasquez, a welder who came in the Mariel
boatlift, said he wasn't moved by any efforts on the part of exile leaders.
''These people should just forget about Cuba already. Let them worry about
things in this country, lowering taxes and the cost of living,'' said Vasquez,
36. ``Fidel is just laughing at them.''

‘Spy scandal’ to save the CANF 4/26/2002 Granma: for more on this extended
tale about La Mas Fea, see The CANF, drugs, and the October 1997 plot to kill
Castro.

CONNECTIONS OF CANF'S TREASURER 12/15/2000 Zmag: "The Cuban American
National Foundation is well-represented on the GOP's list of presidential
electors from Florida by CANF's treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who happens to be
a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has another friend named Luis
Posada Carriles, one of the most notorious terrorists among Cuban expatriots. In
an autobiography published in Honduras in 1994, Posada names Feliciano Foyo as
one of his financial backers."

*RICARDO MAS CANOSA, CUBAN-AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE, ARRESTED
IN NICARAGUA Managua, September 17 (RHC)--Cuban-American millionaire
Ricardo Mas Canosa has been arrested in Nicaragua after publicly
accusing Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman of corruption. The brother
of the late leader of Miami's ultra-rightwing Cuban-American National
Foundation, Jorge Mas Canosa, was arrested on Aleman's orders as he was
about to board an airplane to Honduras. Publicly calling Aleman a thief,
Mas Canosa accused the Nicaraguan President of embezzling two and a half
million dollars that Mas Canosa had donated to his 1996 election
campaign. He had presented to Nicaraguan courts documents from the
Panamanian firm Robles & Associates, Management Investigative
Services Corporation, numerous bank accounts and the names of persons
used by Aleman to deposit the money in his name. According to Mas
Canosa, the money was contributed in exchange for an unkept promise to
favor his family in the privatization of Nicaragua's state
telecommunications firm. The Mas Canosa family, which built a legally
questionable empire after arriving penniless in Miami following the
triumph of the Cuban Revolution, had maintained close ties with the
Nicaraguan President until now. Cuban authorities have linked Ricardo
Mas Canosa to the 1976 terrorist bomb in a Cuban civilian airliner that
killed all 73 passengers aboard after taking off from Barbados.

MIAMI, 2:36 p.m. EDT August 2, 2001 -- It was the first act of
political terrorism on American soil. More than a quarter of a century
ago, a bomb was planted in the car of Orlando Letelier -- killing him
and an aide.

Letelier was a former cabinet minister in Chile's socialist
government and a former ambassador to the U.S.

Now, one of those responsible for that bomb blast
(pictured, left)
is a free man -- thanks to the Cuban American National Foundation.

(CNSNews.com) - A delegation of Afro-Cubans, four from the Miami area
and two from the Washington, D.C. area, spent Tuesday on Capitol Hill
meeting with members of the Congressional Black Caucus, hoping to
convince them that Fidel Castro is bad for Cuba and should improve his
human rights record there.

Omar Lopez Montenegro of the Cuban Civic National Union was among the
delegation. He was told by the Castro government to leave Cuba several
years ago and has lived in the United States ever since.

"We want to explain to the American people what the real
situation is in Cuba," Montenegro said at a Capitol Hill news
conference.

"Blacks in Cuba are unhappy with the system of government. A
majority of blacks living in Cuba are dissidents. Many blacks cannot get
government positions in the arts or politics because of the Castro
government. The only field where blacks have excelled in Cuba is in
sports," he said.

Other members of the delegation did not speak English and their
remarks were translated by interpreters from the Cuban-American National
Foundation, an anti-Castro group that was escorting the delegation
around Capitol Hill as they called on members of the Congressional Black
Caucus.

Selby McCash, a spokesman for Bishop, said the delegation met with
the Georgia congressman but Bishop had no comment on the meeting.
Spokespeople for other CBC members wouldn't confirm or deny that their
bosses had met with the delegation.

The group also lunched with Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), a
Cuban exile and one of Castro's most vociferous critics in the House.

The delegation carried a letter to caucus members from Bertha
Antunez, the founder of a Cuban dissident group calling itself the
"Mothers for General Amnesty."

In the letter, Antunez said, "The Cuban government tries to fool
the world with siren songs depicting racial equality in our country. But
it is all a farce, as I and my family can attest, having suffered from
the systematic racism directed at us by Castro's followers."

Her brother, Jorge, according to the letter has "suffered the
scourge of racial discrimination in every prison he has been condemned
to. The beatings are always accompanied by racial epithets. They set
dogs on him. They deny him medical attention. They kept him from
attending his mother's funeral."

In many of its broadcasts, Radio Havana, the official voice of the
Castro government has denounced the United States and its racial
policies. However, Antunez thinks the Castro government shouldn't be
pointing the finger at the U.S., because Castro hasn't treated blacks
very well in Cuba.

"Fidel Castro has often denounced racial discrimination in U.S.
penitentiaries and has decried the high percentage of blacks in the U.S.
prison population. Yet in Cuba, the percentage of blacks in the prison
population hovers between 80 and 89 percent, conservatively
estimated," he said.

Antunez also believes the Castro government practices "racial
profiling."

"The racist mentality is so ingrained among Cuba's agents of
repression that when mixed race groups are stopped on the street, only
the blacks are asked for their identification papers," he said.

"I've been told by the political police, 'because you're black
you have to be grateful to revolution for making you equal to whites.'
To which I've answered, before God we are all equal, but among men the
only thing that differentiates us is our conduct, not the color of our
skin," Antunez added.

"The only think I have to thank the (Cuban) revolution for is
for restoring the yoke of slavery that my ancestors lived under,"
he concluded.

By Rafael Lorente, Special to the
Tribune. Published August 1, 2001. Chicago
Tribune

WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Black Caucus and the Cuban American
National Foundation have not been best of friends over the years.

After all, Black Caucus members have made frequent visits to Cuba and
offered praise of President Fidel Castro, the foundation's least
favorite person. Some have pushed to end the embargo against Cuba and
ease travel restrictions that prevent Americans from traveling there
legally.

But Tuesday, the foundation's Washington office brought a half-dozen
black Cuban dissidents living in the United States to meet with several
members of the Black Caucus and their staffs. The objective was to
convince them that Castro's Cuba is not a paradise for blacks.

"We have to break this myth of Fidel Castro being the savior of
blacks in Cuba," said Omar Lopez Montenegro, who said he moved to
the United States nine years ago after being politically persecuted in
Cuba.

Montenegro contends blacks and those of mixed race, who make up about
60 percent of Cuba's population, are overrepresented in the island's
political prisons and underrepresented in powerful positions in the
government and Communist Party.

THE Cuban American National
Foundation is well-represented on the GOP’s list of presidential
electors from Florida by CANF’s treasurer, Feliciano M. Foyo, who
happens to be a good friend of Florida Governor Jeb Bush. Foyo has
another friend named Luis Posada Carriles, one of the most notorious
terrorists among Cuban expatriates. In an autobiography published in
Honduras in 1994, Posada names Feliciano Foyo as one of his financial
backers. What does it mean to be one of Posada’s financiers?

Posada, along with three
other well-known terrorists, was detained by Panamanian authorities
November 17 for an alleged plan to assassinate President Fidel Castro
while the Cuban leader addressed thousands of students at the University
of Panama. If the plastic explosive discovered in Panama had been used,
hundreds of people could have been killed or injured. But Posada does
not seem bothered by "collateral damage."

Posada has previously aimed
to kill Castro in several countries, including Chile, Colombia, the
Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Peru. A sales representative for
Firestone Tire and Rubber in Cuba, Posada started working for the CIA at
least by 1960. Found out and forced to flee, for years he led raids
carried out by Alpha 66, a terrorist organization that continues raids
to this day–with impunity.

In June 1976, while George
H. W. Bush (the elder) was head of the CIA, a CIA operative, Cuban
expatriate Orlando Bosch, founded and led the Commanders of United
Revolutionary Organizations (CORU). Posada was one of those
"commanders." As revealed later in FBI and CIA documents, CORU
was soon involved in more than 50 bombings and, quite likely, political
assassinations. Venezuelans and U.S. authorities reported that a network
of terrorists carried out a "vast" number of attacks in seven
countries against Cuba and against countries and individuals considered
friendly to Cuba. This reign of terror culminated in October 1976 when a
Cubana passenger plane was blown up after it took off from Barbados
headed for Cuba, killing all 73 people aboard, including 57 Cubans.

With overwhelming evidence
against them, Posada, Bosch and two Venezuelans were arrested and held
in Venezuela. Military courts in Venezuela acquitted them, not a
surprising development since the CIA in 1967 had transferred Posada to
Venezuela, using him as a leader of terrorist activities against Cuba in
Latin America and the Caribbean. In the Interior Ministry, he ran the
Intelligence and Prevention Services Division (DISIP), which persecuted,
interrogated and tortured Venezuelan citizens. Awaiting retrial, in 1985
Posada walked out of the prison.

According to Posada
himself, his guards were bribed with money from Miami. One of the
couriers of such financing was Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, one of the
terrorists now held in Panama. From Venezuela, Cuban expatriate Félix
Rodríguez, another notorious terrorist, took Posada to El Salvador
where Rodríguez was working with Col. Oliver North in supplying Contras
against the Sandinistas government of Nicaragua. The exposure of that
operation led to the Iran-Contra hearings of 1987. At those hearings
before Congress, Rodríguez was asked about "Ramón Medina."
He replied that Medina was an alias in El Salvador for Posada, a
"good friend of mine," an "honorable man." He
testified that he brought Posada to El Salvador from Venezuela, claiming
that Posada "deserved to be free." Not another question was
asked about Posada. Instead Rodríguez was complimented on his role by
Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fl), one of his questioners. Rep. Peter Rodino
(D-NJ) also told him that we all appreciate his fighting against
communism.

Two years later, in a
speech on the Senate floor, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the
American people "deserve a full accounting of [then Vice President]
Bush and the vice president’s office and its knowledge of Luis
Posada’s role in the secret contra supply operation." In his
testimony before Congress, Rodríguez had bragged about meeting with
Vice President Bush (he showed Bush a picture of himself with captive
Che Guevara in the hours before Che was executed). Senator Harkin
wondered "why Bush never bothered to use his good offices to
investigate charges of Posada’s links with the supply operation and Félix
Rodríguez even after the press reported them in late 1986."

After El Salvador, Posada
spent time in terrorist activities in Guatemala, Honduras and El
Salvador. Money from Miami, said Posada, was used to finance the 1997
bombings aimed at the tourist industry in Havana—bombings that killed
an Italian tourist, Fabio di Celmo, and injured several people. Posada
admitted paying Salvadorans to go to Cuba to plant those bombs. After
Posada and three of his cohorts were detained in Panama, Justino di
Celmo, father of the dead tourist, appeared on Cuban television to
appeal to Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso not to release Luis
Posada. The families of the 57 Cubans killed in the 1976 explosion of
the passenger jet are pleading for justice. Time will tell if Posada’s
financiers can pay his way out of this one.

Group Praises Republican Leadership For Putting Principle Before
Tainted Profit

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cuban American National
Foundation today said that a well-financed, three-year campaign to
unilaterally lift U.S. economic sanctions on the Castro dictatorship has
failed due to the principled stand of Republican Congressional leaders.
Last night, Senate and House conferees agreed to language in an
Agricultural Appropriations bill that would allow U.S. food sales to the
Castro regime but prohibits U.S. public and private financing, credits,
barter trade, and Cuban imports to the United States. The bill also
codifies U.S. travel restrictions to the island, dealing a blow to those
who seek to exploit the Cuban people in their time of suffering.

"Three years and millions of dollars later, Castro, his
apologists, and mega-firms like Archer, Daniels, Midland have failed in
their effort to get what Castro wants most: credits and subsidies from
the American taxpayer," said CANF Executive Vice President Dennis
Hays. "For that, the American people owe a great deal of gratitude
to the Congressional Republican leadership, especially Tom DeLay, who
didn't buy into Castro's false promises and refused to place tainted
profits before principle."

Hays pointed out that 40 years of communist misrule and mismanagement
of the Cuban economy has wrecked Cuba's agricultural sector and
virtually eradicated the Cuban family farm. He said that as a result,
Cuba, an exporter of food for 400 years, is now reduced to international
begging. "American farmers will now discover what Europeans and
Latin Americans have learned the hard way: Cuba is broke and Castro is a
deadbeat," he said.

Hays added, "It is abundantly and painfully clear that feeding
the Cuban people is not a priority of the Castro regime. Rather, it is
catering to foreign tourists whose dollars prop up its repressive
machinery. Whatever U.S. food products Castro can buy will not end up in
the homes of Cuban families, but on the buffet table of the Hotel
Nacional. Any American considering such sales to Cuba ought to keep in
mind that support for the Castro regime directly contributes to the
suffering of the Cuban people."

He said also that Castro will not only be forced to pay cash for U.S.
agricultural commodities, but that the Cuban dictator loses a critical
element in his propaganda attacks against the U.S. "No longer will
Castro and his apologists in the U.S. be able to use the canard that we
are responsible for the plight of the Cuban people. The Cuban people
will now understand that the U.S. is prepared to send them food and that
it is up to Castro whether to feed them or his repressive
apparatus," Hays said.